I mean…if there’s interest? Just let me figure out those last four nagging pains in the ass and I will put it up. The thing itself is pretty simple lego: frontend, nginx config, SQLite/FTS search service, index-builder scripts, BRouter integration, route-anchor logic.

Right now, I have a few irons in the fire, including a fork called SmartTube Local that is turning into a passion project.

That one is basically: “what if YouTube was local-first, self-hosted and yt-dlp-backed, with the local archive integrated directly into the app and automatically kept up to date…so if the internet died, your kids might not even notice?”

…I just did google maps…why not take on Youtube next, amirite?

EDIT: here you go -

aussie.zone/post/36966090

Yeah I mean to you it might be pretty simple lego :) but I’m sure lots of people would benefit from it. Even if not to use the same exact setup then to provide an example or starting point for DIY.

There’s always interest in sources. Otherwise you’d be the only one able to self-host the software. 😉

Have you heard of Tube Archivist?

Edit: ok i see you mentioned it in your Local Smarttube announcement post. Why doesn’t Tube Archivist fit your needs?

TubeArchivist is:

1. heavy (Redis, Elasticsearch).
2. doesn’t have a native TV app.
3. will not play nicely with the Raspberry Pi (table stakes are 2 GB RAM, which is more than half my RAM budget).

I like TA a lot, but not for what I have in mind. What I have in mind should use about 100 MB of RAM, run as a systemd service, with videos served directly to the front-end via Samba, in such a manner that they are indistinguishable from the cloud sources when displayed in-app (well, apart from a core badge saying LOCAL).

I’m not coding a simple Jellyfin plug in.

If you release your code, others might be able to help you get those last parts done, perhaps even optimise it.

For me, that’s the hardest part… letting others contribute to my projects 🙂

Oh, I will release…but no PRs / maintenance debt is better for me.

Feel free to fork and tinker with it - and I hope you do - but this is a personal project you all convinced me to share :)

Seeing people are keen on this, I will get LLM to write up documentation real quick (GASP!) and then push it to github. Gimme an hour

Put AI in the name and then sell it for like 40 million dollars

Sadly, I am not Peter Steinberge.